if you openly carry a firearm and you do
not do so in a
quality retention holster you are wrong
and you should feel bad
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hi everybody welcome to today's lesson
here at active self protection i'm your
host
john korea i'm actually not sure where
this one comes from
so if you have information put it in a
comment and i will add it to the
description
if you use an ar-15 for home defense you
need to practice with your trigger and
your sights the mantis blackbeard allows
you to do that
much more effectively it's a drop-in
bolt carrier group and magazine that
works with your trigger and your sights
and your rifle
to give you real-time feedback and reset
your trigger up to 10 times a second
i use it all the time to be more
proficient as a carbine shooter and i
recommend it highly
guy on the right you can just barely see
actually has a gun
sticking out of his front right pocket
there right next to his chain and you
see the guy behind him with his hands on
his head kind of
looking around like man what am i going
to do about that and our dude with the
firearm on him is not doing anything not
paying any attention and so guy's just
going to walk up and
yoink his gun and run off we're going to
watch it a couple more times so you get
to see it
you just see he's just standing there
not paying attention dude just yanks the
gun
right off his hip and then runs off and
like i said i don't have a new story on
this one so if you have seen anything
put it in a comment so that i can add it
to the description now then i know
people are going to say a retention
holster is the one of the things here
we're definitely going to talk about
that is one of our lessons but i also
want to remind you there's a link in the
description
to why the serpa holster is hot garbage
and is not on the list of approved
holsters
almost anywhere for a reason so watch
that video too
and don't use that one first things
first if you want to openly carry a
firearm i think that should be legal
across all 50 states and the district
but that does bring with it some
concomitant responsibilities
and probably the biggest two or that you
need to carry in a quality
active retention holster and of course i
do not mean something with a trigger
finger release like a serpa i mean
something
with a thumb release something that is a
high quality active retention holster
and you must recognize that it does make
you a target it's a valuable item
that you have out there for people to
see like a very expensive watch
so pay attention to your world now
that's our big problem here
is that you notice that our dude is he's
got this gun is not in a proper holster
my guess is just sticking in his pocket
or
maybe he's got like a cheap nylon floppy
holster or something for it
and dude's just looking around now my
guess is right here as we're looking at
what he's doing
is this is just a targeting of
opportunity is that it doesn't look like
he stalked him it looks like he was
thinking about it for a while and then
he's just like man i could probably take
that guy's gun
right off of him and of course you know
i hear people talk about open carry all
the time and they say oh it's a crime
deterrent
and it says that i won't be a victim
well in cases like this it most clearly
doesn't
against the kind of attacker who says
well gosh i can take that off his body
and have myself a gun
it does not deter crime it actually
spurs crime
so if you're going to openly carry again
paying attention and
a quality retention holster like a
safariland als now you notice here he
just yanks it off his body and probably
the biggest thing that this guy did
completely wrong is he wasn't paying
attention to his surroundings so he
hadn't seen that guy
hadn't made eye contact with him had not
managed that unknown contact
and because of that because he just
maybe felt like he wasn't under any
threat or whatever this totally takes
him by surprise
and if you think you're going to stop
somebody doing this when you're not
paying attention you are
fooling yourself that's exactly what
this guy did here
now of course he has the gun in the
hands of a felon because
stealing somebody's valuable item off
their person is felony theft
so so the idea says oh okay wait a
minute now you
put a gun in the hands of a felon and
therefore even though you probably don't
have any legal responsibility you do
have moral responsibility
for what happens with that firearm so
hear me friends if you carry a firearm
in public number one you are responsible
for the security of that firearm which
means
if you carry that firearm openly you
need to have an active retention holster
a quality active retention holster and
pay attention to your surroundings
to see what potential threats might be
out there because of the valuable nature
of the firearm
if you do not do that you are as
irresponsible as this guy
and you are not a self-defender you are
a target and not covering your asp